That evening, I booked a ticket for the next day's return trip.

Sun Kai left early the next day, and he didn't inform anyone, so he might indeed have something important to deal with.

My parents sent me on the train, and before leaving, my mother reluctantly told me a lot of things.

This trip to my hometown came to an end, the train drove out of the platform, looking at the bleak scenery outside the window, my heart was reluctant, for this land, I both love and hate, like a lost lover, she gave me life and warmth, but in her best years, took away my youth and dreams.

Also in the same shop was a middle-aged man in his mid-range who wore a black jacket, striped sweater, mid-haired style, black casual pants, and a pair of white skate shoes.

He had two huge suitcases, the big ones were a bit exaggerated, and when he came to the compartment with difficulty, I helped him carry the suitcases to the luggage rack, which were big but not heavy, and when everything was settled, he smiled and thanked him: "Thank you." ”

His accent was so thick that he couldn't tell where he was, and he didn't know that he was from Guizhou until he chatted later.

I was half-lying on the bunk, a little bored and sleepless, and he sat cross-legged across from me, took out a drawing and looked at it carefully, frowning from time to time.

"What kind of drawing is this?"

I asked him curiously, staring at the dense lines and words in his hand, a little puzzled.

He spread out the drawing completely, raised his head and said with a smile: "This is the drawing of machinery and equipment, I came to the north to install equipment for some cement plants." ”

He touched a square shape with his hand, and the paper rattled.

My concept of a factory is still stuck in the hot, hot, and dreary small factory in the south, but I have no concept of a cement factory.

"Do you produce equipment and sell it to these cement plants?"

I asked, as if I didn't understand.

"Almost, there are some newly opened factories, they don't know much about the use of new equipment, and our manufacturers have the responsibility to come over to help debug, until the production is on the right track, we can not leave, this is part of the agreement, and it is also the work that the manufacturer must do."

He gushed endlessly, as if he was very satisfied and proud of his job.

I nodded lightly and asked thoughtfully, "Then what equipment do you all produce?" ”

He slowly folded the drawings, took a briefcase, pulled out his laptop, and when he turned it on, he hooked his hand and motioned for me to come over and take a look.

I sat up, went to his bunk, stared at the computer screen, and saw him find a lot of pictures in a folder, looking through them one by one.

"You see, this is an indispensable piece of equipment for the production of cement products."

He pointed to a photo on the screen, explained seriously, and saw that I was a little ignorant, he added: "This is called a cement ball mill, to put it bluntly, it grinds and crushes some materials and turns them into a dust state." ”

"How did something so big turn up?"

I pursed my lips and asked for some reason.

He chuckled a few times, not thinking that the question I asked was very low-level, he explained: "This depends on the support of many electrical equipment, as well as the main motor, auxiliary equipment, reducer, etc., this equipment is the most critical equipment in the cement production process." ”

The more detailed he explained, the more confused I became.

He saw that I was not interested in this equipment, and then changed a photo, this is a three-dimensional rotating equipment, more than three meters high, the equipment has ten outlets, each outlet has a shoebox-sized distribution box, the lights on the electrical box are flashing, and various values are displayed on it, which is very scientific and technological.

"This equipment is a cement packaging machine, and the value on it is the bag weight of cement."

"Isn't cement 50 kilograms, 100 catties."

"That's right, this equipment can control the weight of the cement bag, if it is not well controlled, a bag of cement is likely to be insufficient or overweight."

He seemed to enjoy talking about his work, and the corners of his mouth turned up with a proud expression.

I really didn't dare to be interested, and I didn't want to know about this, so I chirped, went back to my bunk, took my mobile phone, looked at the time, half past nine in the morning, there was still a long way to go to the destination, so I simply slept first.

Lying on the bunk, I fell asleep in a daze, and in a trance, I came to a desert hinterland, which was deserted, extremely depressed, and overgrown with weeds on the yellow earthen walls.

Looking into the distance, the sand and dust are everywhere, the desolation is boundless, and a touch of the slanting sun hangs down, this situation reminds me of a poem, the desert is lonely, and the sun sets on the long river.

The ruins of the earthen wall, much like a site of the ancient Silk Road, I looked around at this place that made me curious, and a vulture whistled past me in the sky, making a loud long call, and was soon obliterated by the billowing yellow dust.

"Who are you?"

A voice suddenly appeared, and I hurriedly turned my head to see a young girl in a fur suit, his hair braided into small braids, hanging down his shoulders, wearing a pair of fat white trousers and a pair of high-waisted boots.

"I, my name is Wang Tao, what is this place?"

I looked at the Huren girl in front of me, and I was a little incoherent for a while.

"This is my home."

The girl whispered, her clear eyes shining as calmly as a lake.

"What? Do you live in this kind of place? ”

I asked, confused, and turned to look around me again.

"That's right."

The girl's voice suddenly became eerie and cold, and in the empty courtyard wall, her voice collided back and forth, echoing in my ears.

I looked at her, and saw that her face had become more and more iron-blue, and after a few moments, her eyes had turned crimson, and two fangs more than an inch long had grown from her mouth.

"You?"

My hairs stood on end, and when I saw her terrifying form, I gasped and turned to run.

But in this desert area, with every step I take, my feet sink into the soft sand, and soon I am out of breath and sweating profusely, and with the last of my strength, I fall to the ground from exhaustion, and the hot yellow sand drows me up, and the air becomes thin, and in a short time I suffocate and disappear completely into the merciless desert.

"Hey, buddy, wake up."

A voice rang in my ears, and I slowly opened my eyes to see that it was the man sleeping across from me, and he was looking at me with a worried face.

"What's wrong?"

I rubbed my sleepy eyes, sat up with difficulty, and yawned.

"You frightened me out of the way, shaking and howling in bed, did you have some nightmare?"

"Ah, it's fine."

I put on my shoes, went to the smoking place, lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and looked out the window at the pitch black, hazy, sparkling lights covering the distant plains, and the train clattering and tirelessly moving.

I took out my phone and looked at the time, it was already past seven o'clock in the evening, I had slept all day, my stomach sounded, extinguished the cigarette, I came to the restaurant, and asked for dinner.

Mapo tofu, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, white rice, I gulped down, and felt that this dinner was the most delicious and filling meal I had eaten on the train.

After dinner, I went back to my bunk and saw my buddy who lived across from me covered with a quilt and had fallen asleep.

I lay lightly on the bunk, took my mobile phone, clicked on WeChat, and saw Sun Kai send me a voice message.

"I've arrived, and all is well."

It's so fast, I've been driving for so long, and I'm already catching up on sleep at this time.

I replied: It's good to arrive, I'm still on the train, and I'll be there at dawn.

Putting down the phone, I covered the quilt, closed my eyes and recuperated, thinking about the unreliable dream I had during the day, who was that girl, and what was going on in that desolate and depressed scene.

At dawn, the train entered the station with a high-pitched long whistle, I walked out of the platform with my luggage bag, stopped a taxi outside the station, and went straight to the Saiwai Taoyuan community.

I'm going to my house to water the flowers, and by the way, I'm looking at Xue Xinyan's car.

The car drove for about half an hour, stopped downstairs in the community, paid the money, I came to the elevator, the elevator indicator light is off, I frowned, good guys, is the elevator broken?

If I had to climb the stairs, I really couldn't do it.

I swallowed and spit, the community was unusually quiet in the early morning, many residents had not yet woken up, I coughed lightly, it seemed that I had to climb the stairs, there was no other way.

When I arrived on my floor, I was already sweating profusely and panting, I wiped the sweat from my forehead, took out the door key, and was about to open the door when I saw the door of my neighbor's house open and a strange man came out, this is not the landlord I saw last time.

I froze in surprise when I saw the young woman following him, dressed in pink pajamas, with a disheveled hair and a satisfied smile on her face.

Seeing me standing outside the door, her face quickly changed, from the smile she had just had just turned into a blue and white coldness.

I inserted the key into the lock hole, turned it, there was no response, I was embarrassed, I saw the two people on the other side looking at me suspiciously, and twisted the key again, still unmoved.

I pulled out the key, looked closely, and thought to myself, why can't the door open?

"That."

The young woman saw that I was at a loss, and she said softly: "Well, a few days ago, a few workers came to change the lock, and it seems that the lock cylinder has been replaced. ”

"What?"

I was shocked, who else could change my own lock cylinder besides me and Xue Xinyan?

I thought for a moment, took out my mobile phone, found Du Chenyu's number, dialed it directly, and after a while, the phone was connected.

"Hey."

Du Chenyu's hoarse bass voice came from the other side of the phone.

"Brother Du, my door lock cylinder has been replaced, do you know who it is?"

I was a little flustered, at a loss, and in a cold sweat.

"Oh, I changed it."

He said something careless, and some of it was taken for granted.

"Why swap it out?"

I clutched the keys in my hand, feeling like a clown with a foreign appearance.

The young woman closed the door, and the strange man pressed the elevator for a while, only to find that the elevator was out of order, he sighed and shook his head, went straight to the stairs, and disappeared.

"Because, this house can't be lived in for you right now."